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Re: GDB 7.7 branching on Monday?
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: GDB <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:27:49 -0800
- Subject: Re: GDB 7.7 branching on Monday?
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> I have 4 patches I like to see in GDB 7.7:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00309.html
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00307.html
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00313.html
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00310.html
>
> I'll need a little more from you. What's your estimate for getting them
As you said, they are small changes. But I don't know when
Mark will have time to review them.
> in, and what are the consequences of not having them for 7.7?
Reverse debugging won't work for x32 without them.
> Here is what I propose: We go ahead with the branch on Monday.
> Looking at the patches, they seem to be relatively simple enough
> that they should be good candidates for backporting to the branch
> if they get approved after Monday.
>
It sounds good to me.
BTW, what can/should GDB community do to reduce review time
for x86 specific changes, especially those small changes.
Thanks.
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H.J.